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A dream of a day at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. We’d come out of a huge David Hockney exhibition, and my family and I were pooped. So granddaughters, their mother Myndy and I sat on a rim of the Stravinsky Fountain to rest a bit, while my son Josh took our picture.
The fountain makes me smile four years later, as it did the first time I saw it decades ago. It’s a 1983 collaboration between sculptors Jean Tinguely (he did the black mechanical parts) and Niki de Saint Phalle (the puffy colorful figures something/someone in a crown, serpent, heart, lips).
Susan Stamberg and family at the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris. Josh Stamberg
A dream of a day at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. We d come out of a huge David Hockney exhibition, and my family and I were pooped. So granddaughters, their mother Myndy and I sat on a rim of the Stravinsky Fountain to rest a bit, while my son Josh took our picture.
The fountain makes me smile four years later, as it did the first time I saw it decades ago. It s a 1983 collaboration between sculptors Jean Tinguely (he did the black mechanical parts) and Niki de Saint Phalle (the puffy colorful figures something/someone in a crown, serpent, heart, lips).
Josh Stamberg
Originally published on April 8, 2021 9:00 am
A dream of a day at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. We d come out of a huge David Hockney exhibition, and my family and I were pooped. So granddaughters, their mother Myndy and I sat on a rim of the Stravinsky Fountain to rest a bit, while my son Josh took our picture.
The fountain makes me smile four years later, as it did the first time I saw it decades ago. It s a 1983 collaboration between sculptors Jean Tinguely (he did the black mechanical parts) and Niki de Saint Phalle (the puffy colorful figures something/someone in a crown, serpent, heart, lips).
Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy
At MoMA PS1 and Salon 94, the French-American artist gets long overdue attention for her boundary-defying architecture and public sculptures.
View of “Black Dancer” (1966-67) in the exhibition “Niki de Saint Phalle: Joy Revolution” at Salon 94 gallery.Credit.Charlie Rubin for The New York Times
April 8, 2021
“I was lucky to discover art,” she said, “because on a psychological level I had everything you need to become a terrorist.”
It was going to be one or the other for Niki de Saint Phalle, who made some of the most joyous art of postwar France, and also some of the most menacing. Her colleagues in 1960s Paris caused ruckuses by filling galleries with industrial junk, or painting canvases with the bodies of naked models but none of them went as far as Saint Phalle, who used live ammunition to shoot up oil paintings and, by extension, the men of the cultural establishment. Even when her art turned more lighth
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